Distich

From Carmina Archilochi:  The Fragments of Archilochos translated by Guy Davenport.

Hipponax alone among the archaic poets, we are told, had as sharpened a stylus as Archilochos, and Hipponax is remembered for a black little distich:

Woman is twice a pleasure to man.

The wedding night and her funeral.

Leading to the question:  What is a distich?

A distich is a literary term for a stanza, strophe, or poem consisting of two lines of verse, typically forming a complete thought or rhyming couplet. It is derived from the Greek distichos ("having two rows") and often refers specifically to classical elegiac couplets (one hexameter and one pentameter line) or similar two-line structures.